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Daphne Oz lives by one rule when it comes to eating healthy: don’t be too strict.

“The only trick I’ve been able to find is not taking anything too seriously,” she said told Page Six of balancing a healthy lifestyle with a busy schedule.

“There are days when I get an A grade for eating really well or I go to the gym and I really kill it, and there are also days where I just enjoy my time with my kids and eat delicious meals,” the 31-year-old added.

Speaking at the HealthCorp Charity Gala at Chelsea Piers on Monday night, hosted by her father Dr. Mehmet Oz, Daphne said never limiting herself is how she’s managed to keep her weight under control, despite her health-centric family and career.

“I’ve struggled with weight my whole life, I finally lost weight in college,” the cookbook author and co-host of ABC’s “The Chew” explained. “The only way I’ve managed to keep it off is by never feeling deprived and never feel like anything is off-limits.”

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“How miserable would it be to never have bread again or to never have dessert?” she joked.

And Dr. Oz shares the same sentiment.

“I’m not a food Nazi,” he said, even after telling us that soft drinks aren’t allowed in his house.

“I just want the good food in front of [my family], as long as that’s my first instinct and my family’s first instinct, that’s 80 percent of the time,” he explained. And as for the other 20 percent, chips and ice cream are fair game.

But in pursuit of her own health goals, Daphne hopes to influence others along the way, specifically her 3-year-old daughter.

“It’s not that I’m modeling a size zero body but I’m just trying to be happy in my skin and trying to show that to my daughter especially,” the mother of two noted. “I hope to set the example of wanting to make good choices when I can, but also ultimately having a good time and enjoy my life and I want her to feel that too.”